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" Silvor-lcavecl Peppermint," generally called " Turpentine, used for oil 

 distillation. Fairly abundant in Gunning and Yass districts, and grows on very poor 

 country along the small flats and watercourses " (G. H. Sheaffe). 



Yass to Bowning, 2} miles out, 1,600 feet above sea-level. (11. H. Cambage, 

 No. 2,03G); Yass (Revd. J. W. Dwyer). Tree about 30 feet, trunk matted stringy- 

 bark up to brandies, then strips oil', near Gundaroo (Revd. J. W. Dwyer). About 

 40 feet ; appearance of Stringybark. Bark ragged, fibrous, matted, reddish brown on 

 trunk and larger limbs, llicn on smaller limbs coming off in strips and curling 

 inwards, leaving creamy-white smooth branchlets." Nelanglo Creek, near Gundaroo, 

 also hills near Burrinjuck and Goodradigbee (R,evd. J. W. Dwyer). 



Lake George (Revd. Dr. Woolls). 



Tumut, in varying degrees of glaucousness (E. Betche, W. W. Froggatt). 

 Tumut, West Blowering Road and Lacmalac (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.j. 



Victoria. 



" Peppermint." Fibrous bark up to 3 inches thick. Leaves all lanceolar. 

 Beechworth (Falck). 



AFFINITIES. 



This species, while it has not many synonyms as compared with some species, 

 has a most complicated synonymy, and I will endeavour to make tbe situation clear. 



1. With E. pulverulenta Sims (the " pulverulenta confusion)." 



In Fragm. ii, 71 (1860) Mueller, in identifying Bathurst and Lake George 

 specimens (erroneously as we knew later) with E. pulverulenta Sims, says, he 

 formerly distributed this species under the name E. cinerea F.v.M. (correctly as we 

 knew later). ' This is the first mention of the name cinerea. 



In 1866 Bentham (B.F1. iii, 239) described the plant E. cinerea F.v.M. 

 under Mueller's manuscript name. Bentham goes on to say : — 



F. Mueller {Fragm. ii, 70) unites this (E. cinerea) with E. pulverulenta, of which it may be a 

 variety, but as far as the specimens go, the differences in the leaf, in the size of the flower, and in the 

 shape of the fruit appear to be constant. It may, however, be an opposite-leaved state of E. dealbata, 

 and, possibly, as well as that species, a form of E. viminalis. 



In this passage Mueller Mas referring to E. pulverulenta, the plant known 

 as the " Argyle Apple," while Bentham had in his mind the true pulverulenta of 

 Sims, of which E. pulvigera A. Cunn. is a synonym. 



In the " Eucalyptographia " Mueller again erroneously placed his E. cinerea 

 under E. pulverulenta Sims, and repeated this in his Second Census. Later on I 

 followed Mueller, but Messrs. Baker and Smith (" Research on the Eucalypts ") 

 pointed out that _£", pulverulenta Sims and E. cinerea F.v.M. were distinct, and that 

 Bentham's views were correct. 



